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Coercively funded science promotes coercion

Same issue in economics (which provided the appearance of sensibility for the corruption of many other disciplines) and philosophy (which provided the appearance of morality and logic for the corruption of many other disciplines)

Philosophy has long been a battleground but IMO the present moment is shaped by mass broadcast communication (whose effects perhaps are wearing off as broadcast is supplanted by mass social media) and the corruption of economics leading to many propagandistic psuedo-disciplines, especially grievance studies
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JuceMD 2y ago

I'd have to say I agree with you.

Another issue arises is when the facade which veils reality slowly starts tearing open then people start to be skeptical of their gov/MSM... and rightly so. The issue is that now that you have lied to people for so long you end up pushing them to extremes of their own category.

This is why you'll see thousands of followers on accounts that genuinely push/believe that/"space is fake," like on the bird app. And ofc there are many more such ex's but thought I'd keep it short.

And this is a thing that will continue happening. There is healthy skepticism and then there is misguided, deluded skepticism of individuals severely in denial.

Again this can happen in many domains.

Anyways I'll shuttup now 🙃

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a source familiar with the matter 2y ago

Yes, once you no longer trust authority and have to find the truth for yourself it becomes difficult to determine historical reality

I think the strongest evidence of human lunar landing is not grainy video or astronaut testimony but retroreflectors because they can be tested now - unfortunately these tests pick up something like 1 photon of return signal and false positives are possible (and even the official narrative includes Soviet unmanned craft putting retroreflectors on the moon)

So it's probably best to say I don't know, I don't see any way that I could know for sure, and frankly it doesn't affect my life one way or the other

On the other hand I have pretty strong confidence that some "foods" are toxic and some "unhealthy" foods are healthy, and this does affect my life.

Even more extreme are the cases in which state officials and "journalists" present ideas which are not false but incoherent, like paper money or trans women. These two share the distinction of substituting our perception of a thing for the thing itself - a common inversion